We represent the Pioneer Baseball
Club of Portland, Oregon. This was the first organized base ball club in
the Pacific Northwest. The club was organized in May of 1866 and played
its first match game against another club in October of the same year, besting
the Clackamas Nine of Oregon City by a score of 77-45. In December, the club
sent members all the way to New York City to
attend the annual meeting of the National Association of Base Ball Players.
They were accepted as a member club in this organization and were able to vote
on proposed rule changes and other business. The club sent representatives
to this meeting the next year as well, but after that, they stayed home and
helped to organize an association of clubs in the Pacific Northwest instead.

It is our intent to represent historical base ball as it was played in the early
days. Our uniforms are recreations of the uniforms actually worn by the
Pioneer club in 1866 and we play by the rules of the National Association of
Base Ball Players as printed in 1864 in the Beadles Dime Base Ball book.